Quotes About Myth

The border is porous. Myths nourish science, and science nourishes myth. But the value of knowledge remains. If we find the antelope, we can eat.

Myths nourish science, and science nourishes myth. But the value of knowledge remains.

The heroes of all myths face doubts. They feel that they have a calling but they do not know whether they can live up to their destinies. The drama of the psychological birth of the hero is facing fear, doubt, and hesitation; knowing that reaching for the stars entails the risk of failure, ridicule, even injury or death; and knowing that by not trying, you forfeit the possibility of greatness.

Dulce resulta la vida cuando no hay temor a la muerte. El mito del Tártaro es vano. Hay que reírse de la muerte igual que de una máscara que aterroriza a los niños. También ella parece que va a morder, pero no muerde.

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

I know that the harder you try to dispel a legend the more power it gains.

You must have... loathed what became of science in Germany." "I wanted nothing to do with this drive toward the impossible, these speculations. The Frankenstein myth. He, too, was German. But it is not just Germans, not simply the convenient excuse of a Hitler. That is why I tell you: if they want Jane Doe, they will take her. They always have.

The other story about Midas is that he was called upon to judge between the music of Pan and Apollo and found in favour of Pan. Apollo, understandably annoyed (he was, after all, god of music, whereas Pan was merely god of shepherds and tootled on the odd pipe in his spare time), punished Midas by making a pair of ass's ears sprout from his head.

As you see the patterns and meaning emerge in your own personal experience of the world dream, you begin to realize that everything is happening on your behalf, even the obstacles and the challenges that you experiment with. The obstacles and challenges that you find are there to dare you to become vast and wise enough to surmount them. At this stage, it helps to ask yourself: What is the myth I'm living? And what must I do to live it well?

In order to start our mythic journey to end our suffering, we need to enter into a real and dynamic dialogue with our hearts. Start by writing a letter to your heart, telling it all that's going on with you now and asking it for guidance.

Anachron's Law: There is no myth which is so irrational that no one will believe it. Anachron's Corollary: There is no truth which is so obvious that everyone will accept it.

Turning a blind eye to reality is consistent with the pursuit of beauty in myth, but is inconsistent with the pursuit of beauty in truth.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

This myth called bravery, which is half-panic, half-lunacy (in my case, all panic), pays for all; in England you can't be a hero and bad. There's practically a law against it.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend.

Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.

In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.

Men are men ... Dragons are dragons.

red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.

You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson.

Monsters are entirely mythological, sir, like spirits, werebeasts, and competent bureaucrats.

The summers have been shorter since the last dragon died, and the winters longer and crueler.